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paid for eggs by retail dealers, 25 per cent higher than that 

 received by near-by producers, and 32 per cent higher than 

 the average price received by producers of the United States, 

 28.9 cents, as stated above. In this calculation no allowance 

 is made for losses occasioned by breaking, spoiling or other- 

 wise between the producer and consumer. 



Chickens were purchased by consumers at 18.7 cents per 

 pound and by retail dealers at 15 cents, while they were sold 

 by near-by producers at 11.7 cents; the average of reports of 

 all county correspondents at about the same time was 11.1 

 cents per pound. The price paid by consumers, 18.7 cents, 

 was nearly 25 per cent higher than the price paid by re- 

 tailers, nearly 60 per cent higher than the price reported re- 

 ceived by near-by producers, and 68 per cent higher than the 

 average price received by all producers, as reported by county 

 correspondents of the Bureau of Statistics. 



The average price paid by consumers for milk was 8.5 

 cents per quart ; the average price paid by retail dealers was 

 4.7 cents, and the average price reported as received by pro- 

 ducers was 4.5 cents. In some cities there are wholesale 

 receivers and retail delivery dealers; the average price paid 

 by delivery dealers to wholesale dealers was 6.4 cents. The 

 price paid by consumers for milk was thus about 89 per 

 cent higher than the price received by those producers who 

 did not peddle their milk. 



The average price of creamery butter in tubs to consumers 

 was 86.5 cents per pound; the price paid for it by retail 

 dealers was 31.8 cents; the retail price thus being nearly 

 15 per cent above the price paid by the retail dealer. 



In order to ascertain whether the relative differences be- 

 tween producers' and consumers' prices have widened during 

 the last twenty years, comparisons have been made of the 

 relative retail prices of certain articles reported by the 

 Bureau of Labor Statistics with the wholesale prices, to- 

 gether with the raw material from which manufactured, as 

 reported by Bradstreet's. The articles selected are wheat 

 and flour, steers and beef, hogs and ham and lard, sheep and 

 mutton. 



Comparing the average of prices for the last ten years. 



